Suicide Bombers

Taliban Buys Children To Serve As Suicide Bombers: Report

Washington Times | Click the Photo to Enlarge. | Posted 07.02.2009 | World


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Taliban Buys Children To Serve As Suicide Bombers: Report

Washington Times | Click the Photo to Enlarge. | Posted 07.02.2009 | World


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Obama's Doublespeak on Iran

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 06.12.2009 | World


Ismael Hossein-zadeh

In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.

Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills Civilian Family Of At Least 6 Near Bagram

Quqnoos | Posted 06.02.2009 | World


At least six civilians were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a civilian vehicle in Bagram on Tuesday, officials said. The civilians, including t...

Israel War Preparation Drill Biggest Ever

Huffington Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | World


In what is being touted as Israel's most mass-scale war preparation drill ever, 'Turning Point 3' will over the course of five days involve both milit...

Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.27.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

Afghani Officials: Suicide Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 21 At US Base

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 05.13.2009 | World


KABUL — A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded 21 others Wednesday outside a U.S. military base in the same part of eastern Afghan...

My Own Green Zone

Huffington Post Citizen Journalist | Peter Holley | Posted 04.29.2009 | World


By Peter Holley, Huffington Post Contributor The two men on the television screen trotted across a grassy roundabout as they unleashed staccato bur...

HRC-- Hillary Rodham Cheney -- in Iraq?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.25.2009 | World


Jacob Heilbrunn

No matter what gloss the Obama administration puts on it, it's between Iraq and a hard place. And emulating Cheney isn't going to help matters.

Why Suicide Bombing Violates Islam

Kamran Pasha | Posted 04.24.2009 | World


Kamran Pasha

The evil of suicide bombings must be defeated by Muslims, as it violates every tenet of Islam. In the past two days alone, at least 150 people were k...

Iraqi Child Suicide Bombers In Training Arrested: Iraqi Forces

UPI | Posted 04.21.2009 | World


Iraqi forces arrested four children, all under 14, who are allegedly linked to al-Qaida and training to become suicide bombers, an Iraqi general said....

Afghan Minister Escapes Twin Suicide Bomber Attacks

A Pakistan News | Posted 04.17.2009 | World


A suicide bomber was killed Friday by police before he could reach an Afghan minister's home in western Afghanistan, but a second bomber detonated his...

As U.S. Prepares To Exit Iraq, Insurgents Prepare More Attacks

Nytimes.com | By ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 03.31.2009 | World


BAGHDAD -- As the American military prepares to withdraw from Iraqi cities, Iraqi and American security officials say that jihadi and Baath militants ...

Terrorists Use The Internet To Actively Recruit Women

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 03.12.2009 | World


Elisabeth Braw

Elisabeth Braw wrote this story for ...

Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills 21 Police Officers

Quqnoos | Posted 02.02.2009 | World


A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a police training compound in southern Uruzgan province killing 21 police officers and wounding eight others, ...

Obama's Inauguration and the Israel-American Paradox

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 01.23.2009 | World


Ilana Teitelbaum

It doesn't make a difference if the U.S. president is "good for Israel". What would be "good for Israel," would be an entirely new government in Israel.

Israel's Suicide Mission?

Melissa Rossi | Posted 01.12.2009 | World


Melissa Rossi

As Israel's punishing bombardment of the prison that is Gaza - the Palestinian territory of 1.4 million which it has had walled off and strangled fo...

Iranian Suicide Bombers Seek To Attack Israel

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.31.2008 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Hard-line Iranian student groups have asked the government to authorize volunteers to go carry out suicide bombings in Israel in ...

Hamas Calls For Martyrdom After 280 Palestinians Die (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.28.2008 | World


Israel has continued airstrikes on Gaza for the second day. The death toll has risen to 280, reports Al Jazeera. It also reports that Hamas has made a...

Life in a War Zone: Text Messages, Shopping, and Bad TV

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 12.11.2008 | World


Virginia M. Moncrieff

Long ago, I learned that you are still the same person when you enter a war zone. You need to do your washing, satisfy your urge to shop for luxuries, meet friends and watch bad TV.

An Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw In Iraq

Washingtonpost.com | Matthew Alexander | Posted 11.30.2008 | World


I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfull...

Afghan Police: Blast Near US Embassy Kills 4

AP | AMIR SHAH and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 11.27.2008 | World


KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of foreign troops exploded about 200 yards (meters) outside the U.S. Embassy in Kab...

18 Potential Female Suicide Bombers Surrender In Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.26.2008 | World


BAGHDAD — Eighteen young women purportedly belonging to a suicide bombing network in northern Iraq surrendered to U.S. forces on Wednesday, a to...

British Soldier Rugby-Tackles Afghan Suicide Bomber, Saves Comrades

Daily Telegraph | Ben Farmer in Kabul | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics


The 40-year-old from Devon, who asked not to be named, wrestled the bomber to the ground after spotting him reach for a detonator switch on the motorc...

UN: Afghan Children Being Recruited As Suicide Bombers

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home


UNITED NATIONS — Afghanistan's security forces and insurgent groups are both recruiting children to serve as fighters and the Taliban also is us...